Trains and operations in Browns Yard

So, DRRR is being allowed to run on the Amboy Secondary to reach the Hightstown Industrial? I know not much traffic is on that track anymore these days, so it seems like it would be a good spot to put cars

JohnFromJersey wrote: ↑Mon Oct 23, 2023 6:21 pm So, DRRR is being allowed to run on the Amboy Secondary to reach the Hightstown Industrial? I know not much traffic is on that track anymore these days, so it seems like it would be a good spot to put cars

Do they already run between the switch points on the wye? Hightstown is only another 275 feet.

JohnFromJersey wrote: ↑Mon Oct 23, 2023 6:21 pm So, DRRR is being allowed to run on the Amboy Secondary to reach the Hightstown Industrial? I know not much traffic is on that track anymore these days, so it seems like it would be a good spot to put cars

On 7/1/22 they were granted rights only for interchange on the Hightstown " clear of the Amboy switch" and on the Amboy Sec itself between MP 14 and MP 13.

If you noticed, almost everytime the JB-1 worked, they turned the power . Outbounds would be left on the east leg and the power would be run over the Amboy back to the west leg.

I am rarely in Jamesburg, especially during the times they turn the train around, so I never knew until now.

What’s up with SA31 running to Port Reading tonight??

Bracdude181 wrote:What’s up with SA31 running to Port Reading tonight??

NJCL is shut down this weekend from 2am Saturday to 2am Monday. There was no OI16 today, not enough time for PR52 to run to Browns and back. So SA31 made a move with outbounds from Browns to Port Reading and picked up the inbounds that PR06 brought down from Oak Island in the OI16 time slot.

Ahh ok.

Any word on wether or not Conrail is running their Santa Train again this year?

Browns Yard Power as of 11/9/23:

NS GP38-2 #5269 HH K3LA
CSX GP40-2 #4406 YN3 K5LA
CSX GP40-2 #4432 YN3b K5LA

SA31 has CSX 4432, 4406 and 16 cars

Currently working Berrys Plastics in Hightstown.

Is that the only customer remaining on the hightstown industrial? Or is there more?

I believe BP is all that’s left. Unsure why Tyler Distribution left.

Can we expect a Conrail Santa Train this year?

Not around here this year.

I remember they went up the church connecting track last year.